Came here to say just that - used to be quite a few people who would show up at yoga classes in Wilmington, NC half afraid for their souls, half wanting to just get more limber.

Here's a link sent me to a couple of days ago by a friend raised in more religiously Jewish environment in another country - not sure if she understood what this was or not as it's relatively subtle. But, yoga - sex, drugs, and rock n' roll according to this lady with some stiff hair.

The Callanetics exercise programme was created by Callan Pinckney in the early 1980s. It is a system of exercise involving frequent repetition of small muscular movements and squeezes, designed to improve muscle tone. The programme was developed by Pinckney from classical ballet exercises, to help ease a back problem that she was born with. The theory of callanetics is that the surface muscles of the body are supported by deeper muscles, but popular exercise programmes often exercise only the sur...

Your target article does not associate yoga with demons; in factit criticizes the disparagement of Eastern religions by some Protestants, and says that association of yoga postures with evil is superstitious. Was that your point, in posting this link?

Otherwise, it makes the rather rational point that Christianity and Hinduism are not the same religion.

I used to have an acquaintance that went fro fairly generalized Christian to super megachurch evangelical. Before her new religion got in the way of our friendship, she had talked about switching from normal yoga, to Christian yoga. She was adamant normal yoga was dangerous.